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📣 Fantastic news this morning! The portfolios of the new college of 🇪🇺 Commissioners have been unveiled and, for the first time, housing is explicitly recognized as a policy area in its own right. 🏡 Why is this important? Addressing the rampant housing crisis effectively requires integrating climate considerations throughout the sector. This can be done by repurposing vacant spaces (sufficiency) and renovating poorly insulated homes to improve energy efficiency. ✅ The Energy and Housing Commissioner's portfolio has been broadly defined to cover energy efficiency, investment, and construction. To deliver on this ambitious mandate, and if confirmed by the European Parliament, Dan Jørgensen will need to foster a new era of collaboration among various Directorates-General, and particularly with the Commissioner for Environment, Water Resilience, and a Competitive Circular Economy. 🇩🇰 🇩🇰 🇩🇰 I am really pleased that the candidate put forward for this position is from a country with a unique social housing model; green buildings regulations often more ambitious than EU ones, and a financial sector increasingly more aware of its role in supporting the transition of the built environment and acting upon it. While there's still much to improve on, there's also a lot we can learn from Denmark when it comes to housing and energy decarbonisation. At E3G, along many other stakeholders, we look forward to working closely with the Commission to advance the housing, energy, and climate nexus. Together with 17 other organizations, we've published a manifesto outlining practical steps for creating a just and resilient built environment. Read the manifesto here: https://lnkd.in/e2CeS-Pk 🏗 Also the perfect time to review this infograph demonstrating how decarbonising buildings can contribute to a prosperous EU, by my colleague Flaminia Bonanni => tinyurl.com/42vt5e6m European Environmental Bureau Metabolic European Community Land Trust Network Climate Bonds Initiative Institute for Human Rights and Business ECOS Bellona Europa FEANTSA Ellen MacArthur Foundation The Shift Project Carbon Neutral Cities Alliance The Club of Rome Bauhaus Earth Architects Climate Action Network (ACAN)
